9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: May 31st, 2026
9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: May 31st, 2026
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Publish Date: 2026-05-31 20:01:00
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The 294th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending May 31st, 2026, keeping you updated on the most important developments in the Linux world. If you missed last week’s 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup, catch up with everything GNU/Linux/Open Source here.
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This week, we got lots of great releases, including MX Linux 25.2, Sway 1.12, Rhino Linux 2026.1, AlmaLinux OS 10.2, Rocky Linux 10.2, IPFire 2.29 Core Update 202, Calibre 9.9, MKVToolNix 99.0, PipeWire 1.6.6, fwupd 2.1.4, NixOS 26.05, Armbian 26.5, Shelly 2.3.2, Audacious 4.6, AppGrid 1.8, NVIDIA 610, Marknote 1.6, Ubuntu 26.10 Snapshot 1, and COSMIC 1.0.14.
On top of that, Canonical released Workshop for deploying sandboxed development environments on Ubuntu, and the California government exempted Linux from its age attestation bill. Below, you can check out this week’s hottest news and access all the distro and package downloads released this past week in the 9to5Linux roundup for May 31st, 2026.
Hot news of the week
- Ubuntu-Based Rhino Linux 2026.1 Introduces Lomiri Edition, Powered by Linux 7.0
- MX Linux 25.2 “Infinity” Released with Linux Kernel 7.0, Based on Debian 13.5
- MKVToolNix 99.0 MKV Manipulation Tool Improves the MKVToolNix GUI, mkvmerge
- AppGrid 1.8 Native App Launcher for KDE Plasma 6 Is Out with New Features
- Sway 1.12 Wayland Compositor Released with HDR10 Support via Vulkan Renderer
- PipeWire 1.6.6 Improves the Pulse Server, Volume Initialization in Filter Graph
- AlmaLinux OS 10.2 Released as a Free Alternative to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.2
- IPFire 2.29 Core Update 202 Linux Firewall Distro Released with OpenVPN 2.7
- NVIDIA 610 Linux…
